[RAILROAD]. Historical Outline Southern Pacific Company
Item #4027
106 pp., index; 11" x 8" typed, mimeographed and bound with two staples at top margin; housed in later plastic folder. San Francisco: The Bureau of News, Southern Pacific Co., 1933. Original Edition. Cover page of title and contents with this introduction: "Prepared by Bureau of News, Development Dept., San Francisco, to meet a practically continuous demand from writers, students in schools and colleges, and others interested, for information about the early history and present day activities of the railroad. In the preparation of this outline an effort has been made to provide in convenient form answers to the innumerable questions that have been asked of this department over a period of years. " Contents include: General description present routes and properties; Judah and the Big Four; Conquest of the Sierras; Pacific Coast Expansion; S. P. Steamship Lines; Early California Railroads; S. F. Bay District Development; Colorado River break; Double Tracking, and much more on every facet of the railroad, it's connections and development. Cover page pulled from staples, occasional pencil underline; else very good or better. |
